Showing posts with label toll free Sherman Minton Bridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toll free Sherman Minton Bridge. Show all posts
Saturday, October 19, 2019

When it comes to lighting one up, best to be careful what you wish for, lest politicians bogart the joint.

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I'll freely admit there are times when I just plain don't get it  on a personal level, and this bridge lighting and decorating id...
Friday, July 19, 2019

New Albany knows all too well how highways ruined cities.

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"If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing then that rationality will simply produce an...
Sunday, September 09, 2018

City election in 2019, bridge repairs in 2021. One should be a forum to prepare for the other.

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Photo credit (and interesting article about the Sherman Minton's inspection (2015). There's a municipal election coming in 20...
Monday, September 25, 2017

The 2019 mayoral race is handed a critical debating point: "$80M Sherman Minton Bridge project to extend life up to 50 years."

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I missed all the fun with last week's Sherman Minton repair revelations, but it seems the beaming powers-that-be are making reassuran...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

Apocalypse WOW: Pat McLaughlin thinks toll evaders will stop to shop in New Albany. Jeff Gahan doesn't return calls. Welcome to tolling preparedness, New Albany-style.

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Imagine how a local newspaper might be functioning as tolling approaches. Imagine the hard questions a reporter might be asking of local ...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Yes, please: "Induced demand" as necessary corrective to road-building lobbyists' Goebbelsian propaganda.

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Wouldn't it be nice if perhaps once in a person's lifetime, a conventional local news outlet -- News and Tribune , Courier-Journa...
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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Responding to the "squeeze" with more of the same suburban sprawl "logic" would bring us closer to the clinical definition of municipal insanity.

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Everyone has an off day now and then, and maybe this explains the article in Business First . It's non-sequential, mixes causes and effe...
Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Like the proverbial glove: Ed Clere, a healthy Horseshoe Casino, and Toll Free New Albany.

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The best way for New Albany to avoid the considerable collateral damage of bridge tolls (which Rep. Clere has enthusiastically supported), i...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Random 2013 Platform Goals 1: Toll Free New Albany and all it entails, ASAP.

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I'm not running for anything, but I'll be devoting random posts in December to civic goals for the year 2013. Topping my list is c...
Thursday, August 02, 2012

"Welcome to Toll Free New Albany."

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Yes, our official civic slogan has been written for us by the likes of Kerry Stemler, who spent Wednesday in a state of multi-orgasmic stupo...
Friday, April 13, 2012

And let me tell you, he's plenty mad.

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Sunday, April 01, 2012

By all rights, Ed Clere should be cringing as Kentucky's Jim Wayne asks: "How to avert bridges injustice?"

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Jim Wayne of Louisville (D) represents the 35th district in the Kentucky House. His comments below are reprinted from the Courier-Journal w...
Wednesday, March 07, 2012

The Sherman Minton Bridge: It's the gateway to Horseshoe, isn't it?

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That explains a lot about the horsetrading, doesn't it?
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